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...The twins’ 2004 acquisition of the newspaper from Conrad Black’s Hollinger after a bitter bidding war marked a crowning achievement for the entrepreneurs, who were raised in a working class family in southwest...
...And the young Deas, recently appointed fellow of All Souls College, Oxford university, was buzzing with the adventures he had read about in Joseph Conrad’s masterpiece Nostromo, set in the fictional South...
...Conrad Davies, managing partner elect at Osborne Clarke, has set staff a goal “to work in the office more often than not”....
...In 2020, the aquilla was reportedly offered (but not sold) for a seven-figure price through the dealer Thomas Heneage at the Winter Show art fair in New York....
...Like Thomas Sankara, the slain leader of Burkina Faso who renamed his people the Burkinabe, meaning upright people, we are daring to invent the future....
...She cites the Cape Town blacksmith Conrad Hicks’s quirky “Toolmaker’s-Server”, made of hand-hammered cast iron, copper, brass and high-carbon steel — “a very anthropological, experimental work”....
...There are some problems with the story told by Cronos (Conrad Lant to his family)....
...‘Opera as Opera’ by Conrad L Osborne is published by Proposito Press Follow @FTLifeArts on Twitter to find out about our latest stories first....
...In the meantime, it has appointed executive board member Conrad Albert, a 12-year ProSieben veteran as deputy chairman with immediate effect....
...Weidmann knows his stuff, talking about Conrad Felixmüller’s paintings of coal miners in the Ruhr. We order espressos. Central bankers, he tells me, are “very considerate, moderate personalities”....
...Mark Thoma nicely describes the challenge that the theory addresses: “People often find themselves in situations in which they must trust that someone else will act in their best interest, so contracts...
...Thomas de la Mare QC, acting for the pressure group, said there was a danger that this “de facto constant surveillance” could become “the most potent instrument of repression”....
...‘Conrad Shawcross: Manifold’, New Art Centre, Salisbury May 23-July 26; ‘The Dappled Light of the Sun’, Royal Academy, London June 8-August 16; ‘Conrad Shawcross’, Victoria Miro, London June 10-July 31;...
...All we could hear was a faint, toneless tinkling in the distance — akin to Thomas Beecham’s put-down of the harpsichord as sounding like “two skeletons copulating on a tin roof”....
...It features Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49, both palpable influences on Larsen’s writing, yet omits a book that has arguably done even more to shape it, Mikhail...
...Pirie considered the post-Shakespeare world of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and John Dryden the richest in all literature....
...The protagonist, an Afrikaner expat known as Marlouw (a nod to Joseph Conrad), returns to the family’s former homestead in the Eastern Cape to find his nephew, Koert, lording it over an Aids-ravaged population...
...Asterix and the Missing Scroll, by Jean-Yves Ferri and Didier Conrad, translated by Anthea Bell, Orion, RRP£10.99/Asterix RRP$17.99 The indomitable Gaul is back in this second outing from Ferri and Conrad...
...He quotes the late Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton chain, who famously said that the most important thing for a hotel was “location, location, location”: “For Hyatt it is people, people, people.”...
...He was a former merchant seaman-craftsman working the east Asian routes: a Joseph Conrad man. His union was a Protestant bulwark of empire, sadly rotting....
...His work led to friendships with writers such as Joseph Conrad and DH Lawrence, and also to contact with Russian émigrés....
...I’m not sure why the country hasn’t registered as a luxury destination, other than the fact it is relatively underpopulated and (Conrad Black aside) has relatively unshowy billionaires, but it may be time...
...“It can be dismaying to see Kafka or Conrad or Brontë read not for pleasure but as cultural artefacts,” he continues....
...Conrad have produced a brand new Asterix adventure that’s all but indistinguishable from the originals....
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